Ballot Asks for Best Woman to Seek Presidency
A group promoting women in politics is asking the country to determine which women would be capable of running for president.
The White House Project on Thursday announced plans to mail 1 million ballots listing 20 prominent women and asking people to pick five they think are capable of seeking the White House.
The group also plans to place ballots in such magazines as Parade, Glamour, Jane, Essence and People and on its Web site: www.thewhitehouseproject.org
Listed on the ballot are Carol Bellamy, Carol Browner, Linda Chavez-Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Maria Echaveste, Marian Wright Edelman, Dianne Feinstein, Ann Fudge, Bernadine Healy, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mae C. Jemison, Claudia Kennedy, Mary Landrieu, Wilma Mankiller, Angela Oh, Judith Rodin, Donna Shalala, Olympia J. Snowe and Christine Todd Whitman.
Women currently running for office were intentionally left off the list to avoid clouding the discussion with partisan politics, said Marie Wilson, head of the project, a New York-based nonpartisan group.
The ballots will be distributed by mail beginning today in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio and Washington.
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